Clothes-pounder.



Lemme.

A. TROY & E. M. LEONNIG. CLOTHES PouNDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPLZS. 1916.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

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CLOTI-IES-POUN DER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lieb. 20, 1917.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT TROY and ERNEST M. LEONNIG, citizens `of the United States of America, residing at Kellogg, in the county of Shoshone and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders, of whichv the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to clothes pounders of the manually operated type and has for its object to provide a clothes pounder of the type mentioned especially adapted for the washing of baby napkins, whereby the main body of the soil may be mechanically removed and the napkins then washed with the pounder.

The device will be hereinafter particularly described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a side elevation of the improved clothes pounder, with a napkin thrown over the same in position for the first process in cleaning,

Fig. 2, is a longitudinal sectional view of the clothes pounder showing in dotted lines an extended position of the inner body, and

Fig. 3, is a broken-away side elevation of the clothes pounder shown in a horizontal position.

In a detail description of the Adevice in which like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views, we have shown an external, hollow conical body having a tubular extension 11 at the end of which is a handle 12 Within the external hollow conical body 10 and tubular extension 11 are located an inner hollow conical body 13 and tubular extension 14. Through the tubular extension 11 is a longitudinally arranged slot 15. Attached to the tuhularextension 14 is a stem 16 which extends through the slot 15 on the outer end of which is a button 17 At the base of the outer conical body 10 and extending outwardly therefrom is a row of teeth 18. Y

When it is desired to clean and to wash a napkin 19 the same is thrownover the outer conical body 10, after the fashion shown in @oplet Fig. 1, with the soiled side inward. The 0perator then holds the pounder in suspension by means of the handle 12 with one hand, then by means of the button 17 in the other hand he forces downwardly and upwardly the inner conical body 13, the range of the movements being from the normal position shown to the position of the dotted lines 17a, 13a and 14:, The lower edge of the conical body 13 will scrape the inner side of the napkin 19 removing most of the substance of the soil. After this has been done the conical bodies 1() and 13 may be brought to normal relative positions andthe pounder may be used in a vessel of water for completing the cleansing and washing of the napkin.

What is claimed is:

1. A clothes pounder comprising similar conical bodies, one occupying a position within the other, the outer one having means on its outer surface for holding a napkin and a tubular extension at its apex and the inner one having an extension at its apex extend ing into the tubular extension of the outer one and means for moving back and forth the extension of one conical body within the tubular extension of the other to change the relative positions of said conical bodies.

2. A clothes pounder comprising similar conical bodies, one occupying a position within the other, the outer one having a row of outwardly extending teeth at its base and a tubular extension at its apex and the inner one having an extension at its apex extending into the tubular extension of the outer one and means for moving back and forththe extension of one conical body within the tubular extension of the other to change the relative positions of said conical bodies.

In testimony whereof we aiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT TROY. ERNEST M. LEONNIG. Witnesses:

B. S. WHrrMonn, H. W. MAUS,

et this patent may be obtained for uve cents each, by addressing' the Commissioner of Patente,

Washington, JD. G. 

